Blog links

By Tom Goldstein
on May 6, 2005 at 4:14 pm

One failing of SCOTUSblog, I think, is that it has operated in a bit of a vacuum apart from the rest of the blog community, which frequently comments on the Supreme Court and its cases. We take the trouble to link regularly to web-versions of newspaper and magazine articles. We should do the same with non-MSM web-sites.

We almost universally post blog links that are sent to us. But tracking and citing web-commentary on our own presents unique difficulties. Unlike news web-sites and news.google.com, no search engine so far as I am aware flags new blog posts – i.e., I can’t search just for new posts on the Supreme Court. (If there is such a service, please let me know.) Also, the universe of MSM sites – in contrast to the blogosphere – is pretty discrete.

So I’m writing to ask that you please send us links to interesting Supreme Court commentary. You can reach me through the link on the right side of the page. I hope to post a collection of links regularly –at least once a week. If we have a broad enough selection, I’ll give my “best of” sense of the group. (I am thinking of something along the lines of this post at Doug Berman’s always terrific Sentencing Law and Policy.)

To be clear, we’re looking for links specific to the Court itself and its decisions, rather than jurisprudence or the Constitution generally. Without drawing that sort of line, we could be swamped by an almost limitless set of links.

In the meantime, I recently enjoyed the responses to this post by Eugene Volokh calling for “deliberately amusing or witty * * * passages from Supreme Court opinions.” And Underneath Their Robes has a running series of posts about next Term’s Supreme Court clerks.

Please email me with other links that strike your fancy, or add them as comments to this post.